A Slice of Yard Sale Heaven!

It was the kind of yard sale that makes your heart skip a beat when you walk up the driveway. Every where I looked there were things, wonderful things, that were just so.... ME! I found out this was the home of an elderly woman that either recently died or has been moved maybe to a nursing home. You don't want to ask such things out loud so I don't know for sure. But, her children were selling off all her worldly goods in the first of three garage sales. (I can HARDLY wait for two and three!) This elderly woman and I are obviously of one mind because everything she owned (aside from the Zip 'N Dash polyester robes) spoke to me. This was a cake decorating, quilting, gardening, juicing, healthy eating, classics reading, old hymnal loving, sunhat wearing woman. She was me in about 50 (or 60 or 70) years!

We loaded up the car, went to the ATM and came back for more. Here are a few of my favorite things. Note the beautiful sunhat, the Wilton cake decorating supplies - some still in their original packaging from years ago. They don't make cake pans like that anymore! Note the tart dishes, the jelly rolls, the heart-shaped wedding cake pan set, the graters, the five glass pie pans and so much more!

The most expensive thing, you ask? $5.00 for the wedding cake pan set which has NEVER BEEN USED! It still has the original labels in the bottom of the pans. This retails for $59.95. I LOVE the stainless steel colander. I love stainless steel everything! This woman cared about not using aluminum cookware. Her daughter told me she was a stickler for glass and stainless steel... just like me!

The books! Oh, the books! She loved herbs, alternative medicine, healthy eating, juicing, and vegetarian cooking... just like me! I wish I could have known her.
Each book was priced 25 cents. All those cake pans? 50 cents. The beautiful garden hat? 50 cents. There was also a HUGE box of cake decorating supplies; tips, icing bags, tip storage boxes, coupler rings and the like. $5.00.

Get this! At the next sale, they plan to pull out her quilting supplies! She has frames, leather thimbles, fabric, needles and scads of books!

Yes, I'm all tingly just thinking about it! Yes, they have my number.

This is what yard sales in heaven will be like. I'm certain of it.